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latchman

latchman noun: a person employed to run in front of a locomotive and open the latch to turn it into a siding for trams to pass.

Noun

latchman (plural latchmen)

  1. (historical) A person employed to run in front of a locomotive and open the latch to turn it into a siding for trams to pass.

Proper noun capitalized: Latchman

Latchman (plural Latchmans)

  1. A surname.

Forms of latchman

Noun
plurallatchmen
Proper noun
pluralLatchmans

Origin of latchman

latch + -man

Questions about latchman

What does latchman mean?
Latchman means a person employed to run in front of a locomotive and open the latch to turn it into a siding for trams to pass.
What part of speech is latchman?
Latchman can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of latchman?
The plural of latchman is latchmen.

Words near latchman in the dictionary

  1. latchkeyed
  2. latchkeying
  3. latchkeys
  4. latchless
  5. Latchley
  6. latchman
  7. Latchmans
  8. latchmen
  9. latchpan
  10. latchpans
  11. latchstring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: latchman (page history and authors); Latchman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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